Commentary on the Verse, "And We did not create the heavens and the earth and what is between them save with real ground": (i.e.) "I did not create them for the sake of just this which ye see; nay, but for the sake of the essential meaning and everlasting providence which ye see not."

هیچ نقاشی نگارد زین نقش ** بی امید نفع بهر عین نقش

Does any painter paint a beautiful picture for the sake of the picture itself, without hope of conferring benefit?

بلک بهر میهمانان و کهان ** که به فرجه وارهند از اندهان

Nay, (he paints it) for the sake of guests and young people who by diverting themselves (with it) may be relieved from cares.

شادی بچگان و یاد دوستان ** دوستان رفته را از نقش آن

From his picture (arises) the joy of children and the remembering of departed friend's by their friends.